Over the last three weeks, we’ve been looking at certain related themes and topics that have particular provenance in Scottish...
Month: October 2016
All eyes seem to be on China’s science-fiction writers. In August, the 2016 Hugo Award for best novelette went to...
The controversial American author Lionel Shriver is set to bookend two major literary festivals in Hong Kong and Singapore, both...
Bob Dylan has been nominated for the literature Nobel for years, but no one had seriously expected the Swedish Academy...
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today inaugurated the fifth Khushwant Singh Literature Festival emulating the theme “Breaking Barriers”. On the opening...
By Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé Let’s get down to brass tacks. Why do you write? Syntax is an endlessly entertaining, Tetris-like...
A pair of runaway slaves fleeing the antebellum South, arriving in Boston. A family of Jews fleeing the Third Reich,...
Noted Dalit writer Pradnya Pawar and Dalit scholar Raosaheb Kasabe were reportedly forced to leave a Marathi literary meet over...
The Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel The Sympathizer has won the Dayton literary peace prize, a unique...
After surviving an extremist attack in his own country and being forced into exile in Norway, the Bangladeshi publisher and...
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